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Fayetteville, Alabama

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Sylacauga census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35151. It stands on Periwinkle Branch. The Survey maps it on the Wilsonville quadrangle. 1,422 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 436 feet above sea level.

Fayetteville within Talladega County

On record in Fayetteville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Fayetteville grew from 1,284 to 1,422 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,284
20201,422+138 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 25 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

89 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Fayetteville between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2,654 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 23 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning26
Arson/incendiarism23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2002Arson/incendiarism12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2010Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Debris and open burning48 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use55 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use80 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Talladega County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Fayetteville: 9 unknowns, 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Marble, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Eureka White Marble Co. QuarryMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Gantts Number 2 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hightower QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sylacuga QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Adair & Brewer DiggingsIronPast ProducerResidual
Mcpherson's BankIronPast ProducerResidual
Shelving RockIronUnknown
Sulphur Springs MountainIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Talladega County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fayetteville in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1996Thunderstorm WindFayetteville$25,000no account filed
April 2011Thunderstorm WindFayetteville$5,000Trees and power lines were blown down along Cedar Creek Rd.
March 1998HailFayetteville$3,000no account filed
April 2011Thunderstorm WindFayetteville$2,000Several trees were blown down in and around Fayetteville.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindFayetteville-Several trees were downed in the Fayetteville area.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindFayetteville-Numerous trees were uprooted and power lines were downed in the Cedar Creek area of Lay Lake. Some trees fell on homes.
August 2023HailFayetteville-Ping pong size hail reported near Fayetteville.
May 2003HailFayetteville-Quarter size hail was observed in Fayetteville.
March 2022HailFayetteville-no account filed
April 2009HailFayetteville-no account filed
April 2008HailFayetteville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Talladega County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Deans1.2 miles25
Talladega Springs2.6 miles25
Sulphur Spring2.9 miles25
Kahatchee3.9 miles25
Mount Sharon4.5 miles25
Gantts Junction5.9 miles23
Gantts Quarry6.2 miles23
Oak Grove6.5 miles23

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on FayettevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1262338The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 118227. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.